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47-765: The conference was named the ECAC Metro Conference when it was established in 1981. The original eleven member schools were Fairleigh Dickinson University , the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University (whose athletic program has now merged with that of LIU's Post campus into a single athletic program), Loyola College in Maryland (left in 1989), Marist College (left in 1997), Robert Morris University (left in 2020), St. Francis College (NY) (left in 2023), Saint Francis College (PA) , Siena College (left in 1984), Towson State University (left in 1982),

94-640: A member of the Iona women's rowing team who in the fall of 1998 was awarded one of the nation's 32 Rhodes Scholarships for academic achievement and civic leadership. The MAAC currently has thirteen full member institutions; all are private schools. Of these, all but Quinnipiac , Rider , and Marist College are Catholic, though Marist is formerly Catholic. Of the MAAC's ten current affiliate members, only two are Catholic. Drake , Jacksonville , LIU , Robert Morris , and Stetson are nonsectarian and Wagner College

141-640: A single Division II-only tournament after the regular season from 1988 to 2006 and in 2007, 2008, and 2014. Since 1981, it has organized regional Division III-only men's basketball tournaments annually at the end of each regular season. In football , the ECAC organizes four NCAA Division III bowl games each year. The bowl games are as follow: 41°38′34″N 70°20′47.48″W  /  41.64278°N 70.3465222°W  / 41.64278; -70.3465222 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference ( MAAC , / m æ k / )

188-523: A sponsored sport for the 2013 season, and all of the NEC's remaining field hockey programs eventually joined the MAAC except for Saint Francis (PA), which joined the Atlantic 10 Conference . The NEC reinstated field hockey as a sponsored sport for the 2019 season with seven members—full members Bryant, LIU, Merrimack, Sacred Heart, and Wagner, plus associate members Fairfield and Rider. Saint Francis (PA) rejoined

235-698: Is Lutheran . There are also two public institutions, the University at Albany and the Virginia Military Institute . Departing members are in red. ( Lasallian ) ( Augustinian ) ( Lutheran ) ( Marianist ) (Jesuit) ( Lutheran ) Full members  Full members (non-football)  Assoc. members (football only)  Other conference  Other conference  The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference sponsors championship competition in 10 men's and 13 women's NCAA sanctioned sports, plus two sports not organized by

282-521: Is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with NCAA Division I . Its current 13 full members are located in five Northeastern states: Connecticut , Maryland , Massachusetts , New Jersey , and New York . Members are all relatively small private institutions, a majority Catholic or formerly Catholic, with the only exceptions being two secular institutions: Rider University and Quinnipiac University . The MAAC currently sponsors 25 sports and has 17 associate member institutions. The conference

329-547: The America East Conference and the MAAC, plus the addition of Stonehill. On March 20, 2023, St. Francis Brooklyn announced that all intercollegiate sports would be dropped effective at the end of the 2022-23 season, dropping the NEC down to 8 full members. This was followed on May 10, 2023 by the announcement that Le Moyne College would begin a transition from Division II and join the NEC on July 1. Additional changes were announced in 2018 and took effect with

376-767: The BYU Cougars , falling 78–72 in Dayton, Ohio . Further, Iona's offense, the highest-scoring (per game) in the nation, managed just 17 points in the second half of that upset. It was the largest comeback in NCAA tournament history, besting the 22-point hole the Duke Blue Devils rallied from to defeat the Maryland Terrapins in the Final Four of the 2001 NCAA tournament . From 1990 through 1993,

423-567: The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament , with Loyola earning the league's automatic bid and Iona garnering an at-large bid. In July 2013, Quinnipiac University and Monmouth University joined the MAAC to replace Loyola University Maryland , departing to the Patriot League . Also in 2013, the MAAC announced that it would add field hockey with league play set to begin in the 2013–14 academic year. However, field hockey

470-467: The NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament . The NEC announced in November 2023 that Cleveland State University and former full member Robert Morris were going to join the league as men's lacrosse associates. In November 2023, Robert Morris also announced that it was going to return to the NEC in football. Shortly after this, Maryland Eastern Shore announced that it was going to add men's volleyball in

517-689: The University of Baltimore (left in 1983) and Wagner College . The conference's name was changed to its present form on August 1, 1988. Other names considered were Big North, Great North, North Shore, Northern, Northeastern, Eastern and Eastern Private Intercollegiate. The Northeast Conference has admitted new members ten times since 1981. The expansions and additions from the original charter members were: in 1985 ( Monmouth University , which left in 2013), in 1989 ( Mount St. Mary's University , which left in 2022), in 1992 ( Rider University , which left in 1997), in 1997 ( Central Connecticut State University ), in 1998 ( Quinnipiac University which left in 2013, and

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564-413: The University of Maryland, Baltimore County which left in 2003), in 1999 ( Sacred Heart University , which is left in 2024), in 2008 ( Bryant University , which also left in 2022), in 2019 ( Merrimack College , which also left in 2024), in 2022 ( Stonehill College ), in 2023 ( Le Moyne College ), and in 2024 ( Chicago State University and Mercyhurst University ). The Northeast Conference's full membership

611-512: The 1995 MAAC tournament, the NCAA men's basketball tournament selection committee awarded Manhattan University an at large bid. The Jaspers proved the committee correct by defeating Oklahoma in the first round. The same first-round success Manhattan enjoyed in the 1995 NCAA tournament could not be matched by Iona. In the 2012 NCAAs, the Gaels unexpectedly relinquished a 25-point, first-half lead to

658-590: The 2019–20 school year. First, on September 10, the NEC announced it would add Merrimack. Then, on October 3, Long Island University announced that it would combine its two existing athletic programs—NEC member LIU Brooklyn and the Division II program at LIU Post —into a single Division I program under the LIU name. The new LIU program, nicknamed Sharks , maintains LIU Brooklyn's previous memberships in Division I and

705-544: The 2026 season (2025–26 school year) as an NEC associate member, increasing the number of its NEC teams to four. It became the first historically African-American Division I member to announce the addition of that sport. In April 2024, Sacred Heart announced that it was going to leave NEC men's volleyballd, and that it was going to return to the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association , where it had played that sport before

752-841: The America East in time for the 2023 season. In July 2022, the Northeast Conference announced a partnership with the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in which MEAC schools sponsoring baseball and men's and women's golf would become affiliate members in their respective sports beginning in the 2022-23 season. That September, the NEC announced that MEAC member Delaware State, which had just joined NEC baseball and women's golf, would add women's lacrosse and women's soccer to its NEC membership in 2023–24. In March 2023, St. Francis College (Brooklyn) announced that it would discontinue its athletic programs at

799-471: The ECAC has organized regional college basketball championship tournaments at the end of the regular season for teams playing at the NCAA Division I , Division II , and Division III levels. It held the Division I tournaments from 1975 to 1982 to provide independent colleges and universities in the northeastern United States with a means of participating in end-of-season tournaments that resulted in

846-595: The MAAC after the 2021–22 school year to join the Colonial Athletic Association, now known as the Coastal Athletic Association . The MAAC responded by entering into negotiations with Mount St. Mary's University , a full but non-football NEC member. ESPN reported on April 27, 2022 that the addition of Mount St. Mary's for 2022–23 and beyond would be finalized in early May. The last of these developments came shortly after

893-434: The MAAC's greatest success in men's basketball, when Saint Peter's became the first 15-seed ever to reach an NCAA regional final, losing there to eventual national runner-up No. 8 North Carolina . Mount St. Mary's would be confirmed as Monmouth's replacement on May 2. Also in 2022, four schools that were already MAAC affiliates added men's lacrosse to their MAAC memberships. All were full members of conferences that dropped

940-413: The MAAC, split into two divisions. ~North Division Champion ^South Division Champion '*' Extra Innings Craig Wicken (Rider) Fabian Lewis (Canisius) ^ Tournament delayed until April 2021 due to Covid ^ Tournament delayed until April 2021 due to Covid ^ Tournament delayed until April 2021 due to Covid The MAAC Football League was formed before the 1993 season, but it was discontinued following

987-461: The NCAA—esports, which are fully coeducational, and men's rowing. '*' Best-of-three Championship Series In 2012, Iona, who was inspired by one of their all around best players Sean Armand, which had lost in the semifinals of that year's MAAC tournament, received an NCAA at-large tournament bid. This was the second time the conference was awarded multiple men's NCAA bids. After St. Peter's won

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1034-509: The NEC established its own league. Also in 2024–25, former full member Monmouth returned to the NEC as an associate member in bowling. Soon after the start of the 2024–25 academic year, Manhattan University announced that it was going to add men's volleyball and become an NEC affiliate in 2025–26. In response to the departure of Merrimack and Sacred Heart, the NEC announced first in December 2023 that D-I independent Chicago State University

1081-456: The NEC in field hockey during the 2021-22 season. A more recent addition to the NEC's sports roster was men's swimming & diving, added for 2020–21 with full members Bryant, LIU, Mount St. Mary's, St. Francis Brooklyn, and Wagner plus incoming associate member Howard. In 2022–23, the NEC added one sport and dropped another. On September 30, 2021, the NEC announced that it would begin sponsoring men's volleyball in 2022–23 with six members. Before

1128-405: The NEC sports lineup is the reinstatement of men's lacrosse in 2024–25 after it had been eliminated in 2022. At the same time men's lacrosse was dropped, the NEC added men's volleyball. Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the Northeast Conference which are played by NEC schools: Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the Northeast Conference which are played by NEC schools: In addition to

1175-943: The NEC. Another recent change took place on July 1, 2020, when charter member Robert Morris left to join the Horizon League. The next changes in membership were on July 1, 2022, with Bryant leaving for the America East Conference, Mount St. Mary's leaving for the MAAC, and Stonehill arriving from NCAA Division II . The Northeast Conference has a total of 9 full members in 24 championship sports: baseball, men's and women's basketball, women's bowling, men's and women's cross country, women's field hockey, football, men's and women's golf, men's and women's indoor track & field, women's lacrosse, men's and women's outdoor track & field, men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, and men's and women's volleyball. Men's lacrosse became

1222-429: The above, Fairleigh Dickinson and Sacred Heart count their female cheerleaders (but not male cheerleaders) as varsity athletes. Before the 2013 departure of Monmouth and Quinnipiac, the NEC had 6 rivalry matchups in the conference; which is most prevalent during NEC's men's and women's basketball "Rivalry Week." The concept of playing back-to-back games against a local rival the same week is the only one of its kind among

1269-722: The conference for the 2024-25 season. Over the conference's history, MAAC teams have achieved national acclaim in many sports. In the summer of 2002, the Marist men's varsity eight boat advanced to the semifinals of the Temple Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta . In 2007, the Marist women's basketball team advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament . The Red Foxes have recorded five NCAA wins since their run in 2007. In

1316-473: The end of the 2021–22 school year, the NEC announced that two Division II schools from the Buffalo, New York area, Daemen and D'Youville, would also become part of the new men's volleyball league. In a May 9, 2022 Twitter post, NEC commissioner Noreen Morris indicated that the NEC would shut down its men's lacrosse league after the then-ongoing 2022 season. The NEC had already lost two full members that sponsored

1363-509: The end of the 2022–23 school year. In October 2023, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference announced that Merrimack and Sacred Heart were going to join the conference for the 2024-25 season. This announcement came on the heels of the announcement that the NEC was going to support men's lacrosse as a conference sponsored sport for the 2024–25 academic year, after having to discontinue it two years earlier due to

1410-399: The end of the spring 2023 schedule. Le Moyne was announced as SFC's replacement that May. The NEC added two affiliate members in 2023–24— Binghamton University in men's golf plus men's and women's tennis, and Niagara University in bowling. Niagara added that sport for 2023–24 by effectively absorbing the bowling program of Medaille University , a nearby Division III school that closed at

1457-599: The fall of 2011, the Iona men's cross country team finished tied for ninth place at the NCAA Championship race, extending the Gaels' streak to 10 straight Top 10 national finishes. During the 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament , the Saint Peter's Peacocks became the first 15 seed to reach the Elite Eight . With an overall record of 22–12, Saint Peter's had the best NCAA postseason run with

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1504-911: The final regular season standings are used to determine Cup points. Starting with the 2012–13 season, the Conference began awarding three bonus points to the NEC Tournament champion in those sports. In all other sports, points are awarded based on the finish at NEC Championship events. Eastern College Athletic Conference The Eastern College Athletic Conference ( ECAC ) is a college athletic conference comprising schools that compete in 15 sports (13 men's and 13 women's). It has 220 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I , II , and III , ranging in location from Maine to South Carolina and west to Missouri. Most or all members belong to at least one other athletic conference . The ECAC

1551-434: The first women's team to represent the MAAC in the NCAA women's basketball tournament. In 1984, the MAAC received an automatic bid to the NCAA men's basketball tournament, where Iona was the first team to represent the MAAC on the men's side. The conference currently possesses 15 automatic bids to NCAA championships. In 2012–13, the MAAC became eligible for its 15th NCAA championship automatic bid when women's rowing fulfilled

1598-417: The lack of sponsoring members. The original plan was for full members Le Moyne, LIU, Merrimack, Sacred Heart, and Wagner to be joined by two new associate members, the University of Detroit Mercy and the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). The departure of Merrimack and Sacred Heart left the number of men's lacrosse programs in the conference with less than the 6 member minimum required for an automatic bid to

1645-504: The league's 23rd sport for the 2011 season. The number of sports dropped to 22 after the 2012–13 school year, when the conference dropped field hockey. The departure of Monmouth and Quinnipiac to become all-sports members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) in July 2013 gave the MAAC four full members that sponsored the sport; the other two were NEC single-sport affiliates Rider and Siena. The MAAC then decided to add field hockey as

1692-401: The majority of their intercollegiate athletic programs to the MAAC in 1997 with the intent that the MAAC would enhance media exposure and competition for their men's and women's Division I basketball programs. In September 2011, the conference announced the launch of MAAC.TV, the league's first broadband network. In March 2012, for the first time in 16 years, the MAAC had two teams advance to

1739-571: The most wins in a single NCAA Tournament by any MAAC program (men or women) in the conference's 41-year history. In basketball, MAAC teams have made a total of 80 NIT appearances and 50 NCAA basketball tournament appearances. Notable MAAC student athletes include Mary Beth Riley, a 1991 graduate of Canisius, who was the first recipient of the NCAA Woman of the Year Award and Erin Whalen,

1786-501: The nation's 31 NCAA Division I conferences. The pre-2013 NEC rivalries are as follows (with the current NEC team listed first in the matchups that are now non-conference): The NEC Commissioner's Cup was instituted during the 1986–87 season with Long Island winning the inaugural award. Cup points are awarded in each NEC sponsored sport. For men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball, football, women's bowling, softball, men's and women's lacrosse, and baseball,

1833-496: The qualifying requirements. The league added football in 1993, but discontinued it following the 2007 season. From 1997 to 2003, the MAAC sponsored ice hockey . At that time, the hockey league split from the MAAC and changed its name to the Atlantic Hockey Association (now Atlantic Hockey America after its 2024 merger with College Hockey America ). Also, Marist College and Rider University moved

1880-554: The sport following the addition of men's lacrosse by the Atlantic 10 Conference . LIU , Sacred Heart , and Wagner are members of the Northeast Conference , and VMI is a member of the Southern Conference . LIU is the only one of the four that had not previously housed men's lacrosse in the MAAC. In October 2023, the MAAC announced that Merrimack College and Sacred Heart University would join

1927-442: The sport, and would eventually lose its two affiliate members in that sport when the Atlantic 10 Conference announced it would launch a men's lacrosse league in the 2023 season. Three of the remaining four NEC men's lacrosse programs became affiliate members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference . The other program, Merrimack, was in talks with several lacrosse-sponsoring conferences for affiliate membership, and eventually joined

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1974-440: The winning team receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament , similar to the end-of-season tournaments held by conventional athletic conferences. The Division I ECAC tournaments were discontinued after all participating schools joined conferences of their own during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The ECAC also held combined Division II/III regional end-of- season tournaments from 1973 to 1980 and

2021-492: Was dropped after the 2018 season. The MAAC field hockey league was effectively taken over by the Northeast Conference (NEC), which reinstated the sport the following year. The conference decided to no longer host a conference championship for men's rowing after the 2016 season, which is governed by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association . On January 25, 2022, Monmouth announced it was leaving

2068-972: Was founded as the Central Office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics in 1938, largely through the efforts of James Lynah of Cornell University . In 1983, the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (EAIAW) was consolidated into the ECAC. Most member schools are in other conferences as well, but through the ECAC they are able to participate in sports that their main conferences do not offer. Its headquarters are located in Danbury, Connecticut . The ECAC also now offers esports competitions to its member schools. As of fall 2023, there are 78 Division I members. As of fall 2023, there are 7 Division II members. As of spring 2018, there are 79 Division III members. The ECAC has several affiliated single-sport leagues: At various times,

2115-399: Was founded in 1980 by six charter members: the U.S. Military Academy , Fairfield University , Fordham University , Iona College , Manhattan University , and Saint Peter's College . Competition officially began the next year, in the sports of men's cross-country and men's soccer . Competition in men's and women's basketball began in the 1981–1982 season. In 1982, Saint Peter's was

2162-860: Was going to join the NEC. A few months later, in April 2024, Mercyhurst University announced that it was going to transition from Division II and join the NEC, bringing the league to 9 members again, for the 2024-25 season. Currently, a total of 18 affiliate members compete in football, women's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's swimming, women's bowling, and men's volleyball. Full members  Full members (non-football)  Football Affiliate  Affiliate member (other sports)  Other Conference  Other Conference  The Northeast Conference currently sponsors championship competition in 11 men's and 13 women's NCAA sanctioned sports. Twelve schools are associate members in 14 of those sports. The most recent change to

2209-520: Was its largest at 12 in 2008 with the addition of Bryant University. It then dropped to 10 in 2013 with the departure of Monmouth and Quinnipiac for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), returned to 11 with the 2019 addition of Merrimack, and again dropped to 10 in 2020 with the departure of Robert Morris for the Horizon League . The conference dropped to 9 members in 2022 with the departure of Bryant and Mount St. Mary's, respectively for

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